“The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.”

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”

“Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.”

“In fantasy the world is always adapting to you, in reality you are always adapting to the world. That is the only difference.”

“As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.”

“Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)”